James Patterson and Breaking Point The War for Democracy in Ukraine

July 15, 2016 

 Dear Jim,

Thank you so much!  This is wonderful.  I have edited slightly for length: 

111 years after the sailor’s mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin and 90 years after Soviet film director’s Sergei Eisenstein’s monumental film comes the epic documentary BREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine.  The decision by Ukrainians to pursue prosperity with Europe brought on Russian aggression and illegal annexation of Crimea.  In both films men and women seeking peace and freedom confront brutality and death.

Battleship Potemkin is famous for its depiction of Russian troops gunning down ordinary citizens on the Odessa Steps.  The filmmakers of BREAKING POINT similarly bring the audience unflinchingly close to images of the war unleashed by Russia, using startling documentary footage and emotional interviews with participants to make us feel that “We Are There”.

Free societies value a people’s right to peaceful protest and self-determination.  It is a rare film that can demonstrate these democratic values and can inspire people suffering from oppression.  BREAKING POINT shows courageous Ukrainians striving to live as a free people in peace and prosperity, in a world ruled by laws, not by gun, tank or bomb.

James Patterson is a Life Member of the American Foreign Service Association.  He has received many assignments in Europe and Asia.  His writing has been published in the Foreign Service Journal, Epoch Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, In These Times, The Hill, Berkeley Daily Planet and San Jose Mercury News.

Let me know if it's all right to identify you on the website this way.  

Thanks again for writing this up so quickly!

Paul Wolansky, Co-Writer, Co-Producer

BREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine

See 

http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/breaking-point-the-war-for-democracy-in-ukraine/